Government college merit list lack of local students irks GJVM – threaten strike

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GOVERNMENT COLLEGE MERIT LIST LACK OF LOCAL STUDENTS IRKS GJVM – Threaten Strike

Writes: Vivek Chhetri

The Gorkha Janmukti Vidyarthi Morcha has said it will stop classes indefinitely at the Darjeeling Government College from tomorrow as the institution had admitted more students from outside the Darjeeling hills for first-year honours courses.

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s students’ arm today planted a flag at the college gate. Redham Thapa, the student’s representative at the college and a member of the Vidyarthi Morcha, said: “Tomorrow, we will not allow the gates to be opened.”

He said: “The first merit lists for honours courses were out on June 19 but we hardly found any student from the Darjeeling hills on the lists. The college was set up for the local population and if they fail to get admission, where will they go?”

Vidyarthi Morcha leaders said the outfit had no problem with online admission, tried in the college, which started classes in 1948, for the first time.

The first lists for honours course students in various streams were released on Friday.

“We had made a representation to the teacher in-charge on Friday and had asked him to solve the issue within 24 hours. Since no development has taken place after 24 hours, we have decided to indefinitely close the college,” Thapa said.

Kunga Hesay Zimba, another student representative of the college, said: “In previous years, around 80 per cent of the seats were filled by local students. We want the same norm to be followed.”

There is no written rule that the government college has to admit a certain percentage of students from the local area.

Thapa said: “Just to cite an example, in the 61 seats for geography honours, only 13 are from the hills have been listed for admission. Similarly, for microbiology honours, only three of the sixteen seats have gone to local people. In botany and zoology, only three and seven local residents have got admission, respectively. The total number of seats in botany and zoology are 32 and 33 seats, respectively.”

A senior college official agreed that this time more students from outside had taken admission as the process was online.

There are 624 honours seats and 1,023 pass course seats in Darjeeling Government College.

Prajwal Lama, officer in charge of the college, said: “As of now, I have not received any instruction.” Lama said that on Friday a higher education department official in Calcutta had directed him to send a list of local and non-local candidates.

Nupur Das, the secretary of the undergraduate council at North Bengal University, said in the evening: “We have not received any information from the college so far. We will surely check it out tomorrow.”

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